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What Was the Strongest Weapon on the Eastern Front—When It Wasn’t a Gun?

When Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941, the invasion didn’t just rip through Red Army front lines—it tore into the Soviet food system, railways, and labor force. As men were mobilized and factories were evacuated east, millions of women were forced into roles that rarely appear in battle maps: ration clerks, evacuees, rail-yard laborers, kolkhoz workers, nurses, and de facto heads of households. This story follows the hard arithmetic of survival—bread grams, freight capacity, calories, frost—and asks the riddle posed in the title. The answer is not a tank or a rifle, but something women made, counted, and carried under fire.

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